Smiles
Author: Daniel Taylor
Composer: Helen S. Leavitt
Languages (42)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Albanian: Buzëqeshjet
- Bulgarian: Усмивките
- Cebuano: Mga Pahiyum
- Croatian: Osmijesi
- Czech: Úsměv
- Danish: Et surt og muggent ansigt
- Dutch: Een boos gezichtje
- English: Smiles
- Estonian: Naerusuud
- Fijian: Dredre Sara Mai
- Finnish: Hapannaama
- French: Sourires
- German: Ein Lächeln
- Greek: Χαμόγελα
- Hungarian: Mosolyogj!
- Icelandic: Brosið
- Indonesian: Senyum
- Italian: Sorrisi
- Japanese: 笑顔で
- Kekchi: Sahil chʼoolej
- Khmer (Cambodian): ញញឹម
- Korean: 웃음
- Latvian: Uzsmaidi!
- Lithuanian: Šypsokis
- Malagasy: Tsiky
- Mandarin (Romanized/Pinyin): Wéixiào
- Mandarin (Simplified): 微笑
- Mandarin (Traditional): 微笑
- Mongolian: Инээмсэглээрэй
- Norwegian: Smil
- Polish: Uśmiechy
- Portuguese: Sorrisos
- Romanian: Zâmbete
- Russian: Улыбки
- Samoan: Ataata
- Spanish: Sonrisas
- Swedish: Ett leende
- Tagalog: Mga Ngiti
- Tahitian: Ata
- Thai: ยิ้ม
- Tongan: Malimali
- Ukrainian: Посмішка
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1923 or earlier.
Public domain
Earliest known source: Introductory Music (1923); Christian Science Monitor (15 September 1927).
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net:
The Children’s Friend (1902–1970), Feb 1929.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. If you chance to meet a frown, Do not let it stay. Quickly turn it upside down And smile that frown away.
2. No one likes a frowning face. Change it for a smile. Make the world a better place By smiling all the while.
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